The Ohio Humanities Council traveling program visits only four Ohio communities each summer, said Jan Myers, director of the Coshocton Visitors Bureau. Each community pays a hosting fee for the event.

“We are very grateful for the grants we have received thus far from the Coshocton Foundation and the Simpson Family Foundation that help us pay for the programming,” Myers said.

This will mark the third time the Ohio Chautauqua has visited Coshocton. It first came to town in 2011 for Coshocton’s Bicentennial and then returned in 2013, Myers said.

“We are very thrilled and honored that they are coming back a third time,” she said.

This year’s youth workshops, for age 10 and older, will begin at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday at the Coshocton Public Library, 655 Main St.

Adult workshops will be at 2 p.m. those days at Central Ohio Technical College, 200 N. Whitewoman St., in Roscoe Village.

First-person performances by the scholars depicting the historical figures will start at 7:30 p.m. nightly in a striped Chautauqua tent on the Coshocton County Fairgrounds, 707 Kenilworth Ave. Performances will take place rain or shine, Myers said.

The concerts, also free, will begin at 6:30 p.m. nightly at the fairgrounds.